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Inside the Oil-Shipping Industry That Brought Disaster to Lac-Mégantic
2013-12-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Long before disaster struck, the 5,900 residents of Lac-Mégantic had grown accustomed to the sight of large oil tankers rolling through their small, tightly knit community in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. A shortage of oil pipelines in North America had created a new kind of railway industry traversing the continent. In just a few years, tankers carrying crude oil from the resource-rich West had grown from a mere 8,000 in 2009 to nearly 400,000, and Lac-Mégantic is located along one of the...
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Ocean Acidification: The Climate Change Buffer, but Another Environmental Disaster in the Making
2013-11-24 11:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: After attending the talk "Ocean Acidification - The Other CO2 Problem" here at COP19 in Warsaw, it is quite clear that there is another significant issue concerning climate change. About one-quarter of the human-made CO2 emissions have been absorbed by oceans creating yet another environmental problem of global concern. We are changing seawater chemistry through a type of carbon sequestration. This creates a potential environmental disaster in the ocean and delays the inevitable temperature rise...
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Fukushima nuclear disaster is warning to the world, says power company boss
2013-11-19 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The catastrophic triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 was "a warning to the world" about the hazards of nuclear power and contained lessons for the British government as it plans a new generation of nuclear power stations, the man with overall responsibility for the operation in Japan has told the Guardian. Speaking at his Tokyo corporate headquarters , Naomi Hirose, president of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which runs the stricken Fukushima plant,...
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Training for Disaster Recovery: Transformer Installation Drill
2013-11-18 17:51:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Photos of CenterPoint Energy participating in a recovery transformer installation drill. read more
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Regional Disaster Debris Management Planning Project Stakeholder Meeting Summary #2
2013-11-15 23:53:58| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 1,311kbCategory: Program
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